A Bedworth man has been jailed for raping an 11-year-old boy after kidnapping him at knifepoint as he walked home after going out ‘trick or treating’ with friends for Hallowe'en.

Simon John Heritage was arrested within hours of the horrific sex attack – after giving his young victim his home address.

And at the crown court in Leamington today, Heritage, aged 38, of Bedworth, was jailed for 12 years after pleading guilty to two charges of raping the youngster.

He had also admitted kidnapping the boy, causing him to take part in sexual activity and possessing a bladed article, a knife, in Delamere Road, Bedworth.

Jailing Heritage, Judge Marten Coates ordered him to register as a sex offender for life, imposed a sexual offences prevention order banning him from having unsupervised contact with children and banned him from ever doing any paid or unpaid work which could bring him into contact with children.